[2319] in Commercialization & Privatization of the Internet
Nren Money and what it is Spent on.
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Stephen Wolff)
Tue Feb 11 11:22:27 1992
To: cook@tmn.com (Gordon Cook)
Cc: com-priv@psi.com, Herb Lin <HLIN@NAS.BITNET>
Date: Tue, 11 Feb 92 11:17:07 EST
From: Stephen Wolff <steve@ncri.cise.nsf.gov>
You're very close. If you look at the FY92 Little Blue Book, you'll see that
NSF asked for $32.7m in the NREN category. $23.1m of that would have been the
request for the NSFNET program; the other $9.6m is the "NREN increment" agreed
upon in the FCCSET planning process.
The present (published) operating plan is $25.84m; that's what we have to
plan on working with this year.
We have a $10m Backbone bill to pay, and there's hardening (now known I
believe as "tempering") the regionals. There are still some 2000 US
institutions of higher learning we haven't connected yet, and all but a
handful of the country's pre-college schools, and...
We plan to connect two NASA sites to the T3 NSFNET Backbone, and intend also
to participate in the DoE SMDS infrastructure. We've got to fix up FIX-E,
we've some international commitments and some technology development (e.g.,
X.500) to do, there are a number of administrative costs, and...
The Information Services competitive solicitation - after an unconscionably
long bureaucratic ripening - is about to be issued. It's title is "Network
Information Services Manager(s) for NSFNET and the NREN", and as soon as the
announcement is sent to the CBD I will post its text to com-priv and some
other lists. Until that award is made, we are helping DISA fund the GSI NIC
for basic services to the Internet at large.
We shall have ample opportunity to be creative. -s
